Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Golden Gate Torpedo Attack - Japanese Assault on San Francisco 1941" video.

@michaelomalley1856 Imagine the indigestion! And his mother: "Alexander! Don't you DARE devour another book this late in the afternoon! I've been slaving over a hot stove for hours to cook dinner, and I just will not stand hearing you say you're not hungry again tonight!"
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Fascinating video, thanks Mark. Japanese submarines also launched reconnaissance plane missions over Sydney, NSW, on the east coast of Australia, and did a bit of shelling, too. BTW, regarding the mysteries of WW2 - there are people today using PCs to decrypt German Enigma transmissions which were copied by the Allied intercept stations but never decrypted during or after WW2 (probably due to lack of resources, and being from low-level, not-so-important sources). So new information is emerging all the time.
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@brianreddeman951 The USGS would have seismograph recordings (on paper, but quite possibly digitised by now), so you might be in luck. I imagine given how active the San Andreas fault is, they'd have a few seismograph stations in the region.
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@Idahoguy10157 After yet another unsuccessful patrol where torpedoes went "Thud" against the hull of a Japanese merchantman and they had to surface and sink it with gunfire; USN sub skippers based at Fremantle, Western Australia, test fired a number of torpedoes in a bay using dummy warheads. The torpedomen examined the exploders after the test and found they were deforming and thus not firing. I often wonder about how the BuOrd folks slept at night after learning that ... knowing that their faulty kit, plus inability to act on reports from the field, resulted in so many American lives lost and wasted effort and risks taken. I don't know ... maybe they were busy enjoying their war back in the Lower 48 knowing they were safe, and not having to put their lives on the line using their kit?
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@stevebean1234 It is certainly a bit of a weird debate. I mean, speak to someone from outside the USA and ask how they'd see things, and they'd just go, "The USA did this to us, then did this to us, and finally did this other thing to us." They don't care whether it's Republican or Democrat, they just know it as "American".
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@ragingrighteously9996 And a really good guidance system that can correct very quickly ... more hamsters running really fast in the wheels that spin the gyros.
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Especially if it was WW2 paint. And even more so if it was paint on a Nazi secret weapon, or Antarctic base ...
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Agreed. I wouldn't mind it so much if the animals could shoot back.
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@adammann2246 That's an interesting viewpoint on the modern USA. Plenty of Americans volunteered to serve after 9/11.
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@THIS---GUY And then a British computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee working at CERN in the late 80's / early 90's invented HTTP. This, with TCP/IP underpinning it, provides the modern Internet experienced by most people today. It's laughable that people think Al Gore invented the Internet. The only association he has with the Internet would be his namesake, the infamous YouTube Al Gore Rhythm ...
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@lookingforsomething It certainly appears that winning a presidential election in the US just comes down to money. Money means a candidate can get their message out better - regardless of what the message actually is. In Australia we are sick of our two party system, and are electing more independents - especially in the Senate. In fact, independents in the Senate have held the balance of power for quite a while, but in recent years they're starting to be more noticeable in the House Of Representatives as well.
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@adammann2246 Agree that the numbers volunteering were different. I wonder if the "Vietnam effect" was still there? In 2001, it was just over 25 years after the USA pulled out of South Vietnam. Over the years, many vets would've related their stories of what they witnessed over there, how they were treated when they came home, and how they felt for years afterwards. There may have been comments in the years immediately after the Vietnam War along the lines of, "Why would you want to join up, son? Look what happened to me!" Someone hearing that even just a decade before 9/11 may have thought twice about joining the military. Maybe that 25+ years worth of sentiment put a dampener on the numbers?
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@blurglide Hah, beat me to it. I was going to say he is the Jon Snow of our times.
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@seafodder6129 Obviously has way too much time on his hands?
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Wow Mark, Hunting Clash ... really aiming at the US market!
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Nitro Martini That's what the Internet was invented for! :D I don't find it worrying. But I do find it a bit mystifying. Some of these people say, "But no-one will teach me about this stuff that you know about"; to which I reply, "You were raised in, and live in, the most information-rich age ever known to our species. Anything you want to know about can be found on the Internet. You could try not playing COD and try Googling what you want to know about instead."
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